Affective Internet of Things

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) has been becoming more and more popular lately in all areas of people's lives and their activities. The IoT assists in accumulating more and more accurate quantitative and qualitative data. A greater and more accurate amount of data allows for performing a deeper multiple criteria analysis and making decisions that are more rational. The IoT can perform an observation of the surrounding environment along with its analysis independently while adapting to an every-changing situation. Accumulating data, whether digital, textual, speech and video data, observing, analyzing and rational decision-making, require a considerable time and prove to be expensive processes. Lately efforts are underway to humanize the IoT and to integrate it with the Building Information Modeling (BIM). Therefore, this chapter section analyzes the Affective Internet of Things, Smart Homes, Ambient Intelligence, Affective Computing, BIM, Smart and Interactive Buildings, and Smart Building systems. There is also a description of the Affective BIM4Ren, which is currently under development by the authors of this chapter.